Summary: "Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreams of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as an unpopular high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass and won't give his father the time of day. Lance is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WORSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: The story of a down-on-her-luck Southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby," begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: A young man's spiritual odyssey, filmed on location in Rishikesh and Bharatpur, and based on Hesse's novella.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIDSummary: Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ANTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANT RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AnSummary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMESummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIGSummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PUBSummary: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. And,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HUNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hunger 2012Summary: A man travels to Italy to claim his dead father's body, and discovers he has been conducting an affair there for years. Things get complicated when he falls for the woman's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AVASummary: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUNSummary: Examines the history of modern youth culture and the evolution of the idea of the "teenager", from the late 19th century to the beginning of the post-War period. Consists of archival film footage, diary entries, and dramatic recreations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEESummary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012